I have the same issue as the original issue, maybe I can help providing debug information

My current setup is with a master is MariaDB version 5.5.58 on a CentOS 6.2 and a slave MariaDB version 5.5.58 on a CentOS 6.3

I installed a new MariaDB version 10.0.31 on a Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. Stopped the old slave and copied the datadir to the new server. After I did a `mysql_upgrade` I could start mysql. When I start the slave, it is starting to replicate.
But when I check `show slave status\G` I see the Last_Error saying "Unable to load replication GTID slave state from mysql.gtid_slave_pos: Table 'mysql.gtid_slave_pos' doesn't exist" and Last_Errno 1146

The mysql.gtid_slave_pos table exist on the new slave. If I try to create the table on the master matching the table on the slave does not do any change

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Description from original issue:On a fresh (if I remember well) install of MariaDB on Debian, as a replication slave, I'm getting, in "show slave status":

Last_SQL_Error: Unable to load replication GTID slave state from mysql.gtid_slave_pos: Table 'mysql.gtid_slave_pos' doesn't exist in engine

So I tried a `mysql_upgrad` which told me to try --force as it looked already up to date, legit, so I tried --force, which gave:

mysql.gtid_slave_pos
Error : Table 'mysql.gtid_slave_pos' doesn't exist in engine
status : Operation failed

Don't know what to do from now, I expected to mysql_upgrade to fix it þ